Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 62

“I would gladly help you in the matter, Sister Deer, if I could; but I must regard it from the point of view of my own experience in life.

Who acts: old Buffalo, my · What happens: help, regard, point, view, experience · To what, where: you, matter, cud, point, view, own experience

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Buffalo, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	5 help	advmod
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 matter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 matter	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Sister	punct
11	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 matter	appos
12	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sister	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 could	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 could	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 could	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	advcl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 regard	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 regard	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 regard	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 regard	aux
21	regard	regard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 help	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 regard	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 point	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 point	det
25	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 regard	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 view	case
27	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 point	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 experience	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 experience	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 experience	amod
31	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 view	nmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 life	case
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 experience	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	would	the old Buffalo = buffalo		you	the matter	gladly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
2	regard in a quote	must	the old Buffalo = buffalo	cud		the point of view of my own experience in life		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	point in a quote			view of my own experience in life				nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	view in a quote			my own experience in life				nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	experience in a quote		my			life		nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 62